Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-15 | Page 10 | Influenza Germ is Produced by Scientists

Influenza Germ Is Produced By Scientists PARIS, Oct 15. Dr. Charles NIcolle and his colleague, Dr. Lcbailly, who isolated the microbe causing Spanish influenza at the pasteur institute at Tunis, announces that the germ is too small to be visible with the microscope. micros-cope. It has been clearly identified, however, becaifse by its use the malady mal-ady has been reproduced In a monkey and a man. WASHINGTON. Oct. 14. The public health service announced tonight it Is mobilized for a national campaign against tho nation-wide epidemic of Spanish influenza. Additional headquarters head-quarters for state-wide efforts to con-1 con-1 trol the disease will bo established in J co-operation with stale and local health authorities at Baltimore, Md., Columbus, Ohio, Richmond, Va., and Columbia, S. C. While the epidemic continues unabated unab-ated In most sections, the number of now cases at army camps showed a decrease, the total for tho forty-eight hour period ending at noon today between be-tween 15,152. Pneumonia cases for the two days were 47S0 and the deaths 1642. Since tho beginning of the epidemic in army camps, the total cases of influenza in-fluenza reported is 250,020; pneumonia 35.4G5 and deaths 10,741.